RE: [MLUG] IP forwarding

["Borders-Wing, Heath Justin (UMC-Student)" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Thanks for the help, however, I put that file into my computer as
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall, and I enabled the options that I thought I should
enable, and it still isn't working.  One problem that I saw was that I don't
think that ipchains is installed on my computer.  I believe that its
supposed to be in the /sbin directory.  However, it isn't there.  I found
what I think is the gzipped object file:
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.o.gz

So, I thought, ok, I'll just gunzip it and insmod it.  Well, I got it
gunzipped just fine, but when I tried to insmod it, I dont think that I was
successful.  I typed, "insmod -v ipchains.o" and it said, "using ipchains.o
\n Symbol version prefix '' ".  So I tried it again, and it said the same
thing plus, "insmod: a module name ipchains already exists"  So I guess I
got it into the kernel correctly, but how to I use it?  Furthermore, will I
have to insmod this file every time?  Can I put it onto some file in the
rc.d directory?

As far as the other computers that are going to be on the network go, at the
bottom of the rc.firewall file, it calls ipchains with the IPs of the
machines that it should forward packets from. I gave my windows machine that
IP and I gave it the gateway and DNS of the IP of eth1 (the ethernet
connected to my LAN, not the one connected to my cable modem).  Was that the
right thing to do?  Do I need to setup netscape and IE somehow so that they
can handle this?

Thanks, and sorry for being dumb.

Heath
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